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1980s
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File:1980s replacement montage02.PNG|thumb|335px|From left, clockwise: The first '''[[Space Shuttle]]''', ''[[Space Shuttle Columbia|Columbia]]'', lifts off in 1981; US president [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|leader]] [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] ease tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the '''[[Cold War (1985–1991)|end of the Cold War]]'''; The '''[[fall of the Berlin Wall]]''' in 1989 is considered to be one of the most momentous events of the 1980s; In 1981, the '''[[IBM Personal Computer]]''' is released; In 1985, the '''[[Live Aid]]''' concert is held in order to fund relief efforts for the [[1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia|famine in Ethiopia]] during the time [[Mengistu Haile Mariam]] ruled the country; [[Pollution]] and ecological problems persisted when the [[Soviet Union]] and much of the world is filled with radioactive debris from the 1986 '''[[Chernobyl disaster]]''', and in 1984, when thousands of people perished in [[Bhopal, India|Bhopal]] during a [[Bhopal disaster|gas leak from a pesticide plant]] ; The '''[[Iran–Iraq War]]''' leads to over one million dead and $1 trillion spent, while [[Soviet-Afghan War|another war between the Soviets and Afghans]] leaves over 2 million dead.
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The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was a decade that began January 1, 1980, and ended December 31, 1989.
The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
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